Nu Gaze
Nu gaze is the shoegaze revival of the 2000s, in which newer bands took up the blurred, effects-heavy guitars and soft vocals of the original style.
After the original British shoegaze scene faded in the mid-1990s, groups in Europe, the United States and elsewhere picked the sound back up from around 2000. They kept the walls of reverb and distortion and the buried, dreamy singing, but often played faster and added electronics and cleaner production. The name simply means new shoegaze. In the 2020s it has also been used for bands that mix shoegaze with nu metal.
Artists it is known for: The Radio Dept., M83, Asobi Seksu.
- Family
- Alternative & Indie
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Europe and United States, 2000s
- Also called
- nu-gaze, second-wave shoegaze
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have nu gaze among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Nu Gaze artists
Slowdive
Have A Nice Life
Slow Pulp
The Radio Dept.
Whirr
Alison's Halo
LSD and the Search for God
Sweet Trip
Glare
Starflyer 59
The nu gaze artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.